{"product_id":"the-kings-touch-poems-paperback","title":"The King's Touch: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTom Sleigh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA profound encounter with the hyperreality of our time of global upheaval, violence, and pandemic.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTom Sleigh's poems are skeptical of the inevitability of our fate, but in this brilliant new collection, they are charged with a powerful sense of premonition, as if the future is unfolding before us, demanding something greater than the self. Justice is a prevailing force, even while the poems are fully cognizant of the refugee crisis, war, famine, and the brutal reality of a crowded hospital morgue. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe King's Touch\u003c\/i\u003e collides the world of fact and the world of mystery with a resolutely secular register. The title poem refers to the once-held belief that the king, as a divine representative, is imbued with the power of healing touch. Sleigh turns this encounter between illness and human contact toward his own chronic blood disease and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its mounting death tolls. One poem asks, \"isn't it true that no matter how long you \/ wear them, masks don't grieve, only faces do?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this essential new work, Sleigh shows how the language of poetry itself can revive and recuperate a sense of a future under the conditions of violence, social unrest, and global anxiety about the fate of the planet.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.3 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767528915232,"sku":"9781644450772","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/31ba7fda1c5b9137f89da45b79282744.webp?v=1780312685","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-kings-touch-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}